Fromage & Toilettes

A note of explanation:  I arrived in Toulouse, France on July 1 for a year-long sabbatical stay.  I spent the first 5 weeks on my own, settling into my apartment and learning my way arround.  In the second week of August, the rest of my family arrived.  My wife, Betty, and youngest daughter, Rachel, will stay the year with me.  Betty is also in Psychology and an Associate Dean in the College; Rachel is in the fortunate position of just having graduated from high school, so we offered her an "off year" before college to learn some French and some French culture.  My oldest daughter is one year out of college and will visit 2 or 3 times this year, but will live in Lexington and keep my mind at ease because my 2 golden retrievers were left at home.  With that, this is the first of several blogs that I created for my family.

Fromage and Toilettes (14 Juillet, 2011)

Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series 2011

On Friday September 23, 2011 Professor Marcia Inhorn  will deliver the lecture Global Gametes: Reproductive "Tourism" and Islamic Bioethics in the High-tech Middle East. Professor Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in Room 230 of the Student Center. This lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Behavioral Science, the Department of Geography, the Department of Psychology, and the International Studies Program. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Hsain Ilahiane at hsain.ilahiane@uky.edu. 

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Room 230, Student Center

Online Communication

This semester, as part of my Instructional Systems Design Master’s program, I am taking EDC 605: Distance Learning Research and Design. I’m really excited about taking this course, as I think it will greatly benefit the work I currently do in Online Ed. What I’m really interested in is one of the books that we are assigned: Face to Face Communication over the Internet: Emotions in a Web of Culture, Language and Technology, edited by Arvid Kappas and Nicole C. Kramer. I think this is a really interesting topic, as I had never really thought about how emotions and nonverbal communication could affect online F2F communication, using tools such as Skype and Adobe Connect. There are also several articles which discuss race and gender and how these affect communication online. I’m really excited to begin reading this book, and hopefully I will be able to write another blog post once I have begun reading the articles.

Bucket List

 

#1 on my “bucket list” is arranging a private concert by Diana Krall for me and 30 or so hand-picked friends and family.  (Ella is no longer available.)  The playlist will be chosen mostly from her “Live in Paris” CD and her “All for You” CD.  The finale will be Diana’s version of Joni Mitchell’s “A case of you.”  The champagne will be French; Kentucky will, of course, supply the bourbon.  Mr. Dave and Ms. Betty will put together the menu. 

There must be at least one dream on your bucket list….

Lecture - Sexual Violence Against College Women

On Thursday September 8, 2011 Bonnie Fisher, Ph.D. of the Departments of Criminal Justice and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies of the University of Cincinnati will give a speech entitled Sexual Violence Against College Women: Has the Time Come for a Paradigm Shift? The speech will take place in the Lexmark Room of the Main Building and will begin at 3:30 p.m.

 

Bonnie Fisher is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of sexual victimization against college women and campus-level responses to sexual assualt. She has published over 120 journal articles adn authored 9 books and 16 book chapters. Dr. Fisher is the principal investigator on the largest nationally representative study on violence prevalence among college women.

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Lexmark Public Room, 209 Main Building
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